Free To Be Free (from "Rose Marie")

Ann Blyth - Free to Be Free

Written by： Oscar Hammerstein II/Otto Harbach/Rudolf Friml

I want to be

Just as free as the wind in the evergreen tree

Free like the rabbit who runs through the dell

Not like a

Turtle who live in a shell

I hear you say

You would want me to grow up in ladylike way

Maybe that's good for some girl that you see

But not rose marie

How would I look in a polka-dot bonnet

All prettied up like the ladies on stage

Rather I sing as a bird on the wing

Than be showing fine feathers in cage

No no

No

This life I love

Where each mountain and stream are as peaceful as dove

No one but me and the blue sky above

I'm free

To be free

Ask the little whippoorwill

Sitting on the windowsill

What he say if you not let him fly

Ask the little bobolink

Can I tell you what I think

We will tell to you same thing as I

Ahh ahh

Ahh ahh ahh ahh

Ahh ahh

He will tell to you same thing as I

He'll say that

I want to be

Just as free as the cloud floating over the sea

Free as the ocean that rise up and swell

Not so like bucket you chain to the well

Free as the air

With the rain in my face and with wind in my hair

Riding along in the land that I love

I'm free

To be free